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| Jubilee supporters celebrating after the announcement. |
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 00:00 -- BY CHARLES MGHENYI
Little celebration met Uhuru Kenyatta's victory in the presidential election in Mombasa. The celebrations in the streets of Mombasa lasted less than 30 minutes. The region largely voted for Uhuru's opponent Raila Odinga who came second.
It was business as usual in the town unlike in other major towns in the Rift Valley and Central regions.
A small crowd on Digo Road chanted jubilee songs but even this did not last long.
A planned thanksgiving prayer meeting at the Tononoka Grounds was cancelled after police refused to license it. Mombasa police boss Kipkemboi Rop denied the TNA officials a permit saying the meeting need to be organised properly.
“Celebrations need moderation and we cannot allow people to overdo it. Let them arrange for a better way so that we can be able to offer security to everyone,” Rop said on the phone. He said the planned meeting was abrupt and there was no security in place to handle it.
Other security officers told the Star that the proposed meeting was risky and that it could be perceived by Cord supporters as " a mocking session" against them.
They said such a meeting may spark chaos as "the wounds" of elections lose are still raw. No traffic snarl-ups were experienced as the jubilee supporters drove in the streets as they celebrate their candidate's win.
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-111402/modest-celebration-coast-over-polls
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